The California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) was a research organization at the

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. CCIT was formed in 2001 as a group within California Partners for Advanced Traffic and Highways (PATH), another UC Berkeley transportation research center; in 2003 they became an independent center, with a focus on accelerating the implementation of research findings and technical solutions that improve the safety and efficiency of California's surface transportation. It came full circle when it re-merged with PATH in 2011 to form Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology, retaining the PATH

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instead of "PATT"."Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology"
''University of California at Berkeley''. Retrieved on 7 April 2019. CCIT was formed by Hamed Benouar, a former

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executive who is also a former California State Chief Traffic Engineer. The last CCIT Director was Thomas West, also a former Caltrans executive and current Co-Director at PATH.

References

*''Accelerating Deployment,'' 2007 Annual Report, California Center for Innovative Transportation
Inventing the Future of Mobility
Institute of Transportation Studies

External links

California PATHCaltransUC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies
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